Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-02-04
S"YVED HER RIGHT.
BY LAURA BLAIR RoDMAN.


"Well, let him. Others have
done the same thing and still live,
laughed the coquette, struggling to
button her glove around the plump
wrist. ale must blame nobody
bu. himself, for Percy Trent has
known me long enough to be well
aware that none but a rich man
need apply. So if, knowing this,
he is disposed to spend his money
on me for the sake of having my
society, and is silly enough to fall
in love with me besides, who is to
blamef'
Having thus eased hercOnsclence,
the heartless girl seated herself at
the piano and thrummed unmerci-
fully.
"Please, Bella, not quite so loud.
You know mother is not quite so
we'll today"
"Dear me! what a fussy thing
you are, Daisy. There's just no
peace where you are. You are al
ways tuning lest somebody's heart
be breaking, or some ones comfort
disturbed. You are spoOny. But
there-he's Gomez
The doOr.bell rang violently. 1t
seemed to Daisy, whose head and
heart somehow got terribly mixed
as the rich, full voice Of Percy
Trent greeted her beautiful sister.
'But where's Daisy Isn't she
going, toOi" VIM
Then poor Daisy grew blind for
q moment. 1t was Percy TrenPs
voice she heard. He had truly
asked for her
His tone implied that he had ex-
pected her to accompany them to
the matinee.
"But that is Just like Bella she
thOught-"she has such o horror of
third parties; : aud j should ike
to gol But after all, it won: mat
ter. He only asked me through
courtesy
With a weary sigh she laid down
her work and ran over to the win
doH and looked after the handsome
couple her great wistfnl eyes
swimming with tears.
Only few short months before,
Percy Trent was constantly at her
side. He loved her then, but a
change had suddenly come over all
He had no word for her now, and
studiously avoided her.
But her greatest grief was that
Bella should trife with a true and
manly heart.
Daisy felt no Ill that the man
she loved should prefer her hand
some sister.
sit was the fate Of plain people
to be forgotten" she was philoso-
phizing, a little later, when Bella
rushed into the room and IN one
breath exclaimed:
"Ob, Daisy, have such immense
news saw Mrs. Perry Granville at
the matinee. Her rich old uncle in
Boston had just died, and left all
his wealth TO that horrid, red.head-
ed Archibald Trent, her cousin
lie will be here tomorrow, and she
Is to give him a party, and you and
| are to be invited. Isn't that ele-
CANT, Daisy 7"
II am glad for Mr.. Trent" an
swered Daisy, quietly.
"And as l am the oldest, as we'll
as the prettiest," continued Bella,
cycling the mirror opposite, 81 shall
have to have a new dress. But
you, Daisy, must make Your old
one do. must have what change
can be raised for myself"
every WE'LL" responded, Daisy,
without looking up. 81 suppose it
won't make much difference"
''No difference at all, so far as
you are concerned retOrted Bella.
"You know Archibald Trent was
wild about me once, and had the
audacity to ask me to share his
poverty-sn honor 1 promptly de-
clined but a wave OF my hand will
bring him back. SO please consider
my chances for becoming Mrs.
Archibald Trent as certain. Money
only TO have money, Daisy
Archibald Trent is positively hOr-
rid-fat, wheezy and old-but with
this fortune be Is worth winning"
'If only Percy could have shared
this wealth with his cousin" sug-
gested Daisy, hurryiDg Out to light
the fire for supper.
She would be delighted to see her
sister marry we'll, Daisy thought as
she looked about on their compare
tive poverty; but to see her marry
a man positively repDlsive to her,
all for gold, was, to warm-hearted,
impulsive Daisy, q most terrible
thing.
From that moment, up to the
hour Of Mrs. Perry Granville's |
grand ball, all was confusion in the |
Wilbur household.
Never had Bella's selfshness
shown itself so tyrannically.
Every penny that could be mus
tered was appropriated by the heart
less girl, leaving her sister to choose
rom her old hnsry, Of stay at hOme,